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We promote an organizational culture fostering 1958 and then through consolidations dropped to the Our very best wishes for a collaboration, innovation, efficiency, excellence and leadership that is present level of 37. Some rural BOCES serve a student embraced by BOCES and its community. successful 2012-13 school year. base of 8,000 pupils, while others exceed 190,000. Dutchess BOCES was organized on May 22, 1957, Mission upon the order of the Commissioner of Education. District Superintendent The Board of Cooperative Educational Services provides educational Through the cooperative efforts of our thirteen leadership through service, solutions and savings. component school districts, Dutchess BOCES is able to offer a wide variety of educational programs and support services to children and adults in Dutchess John C. Pennoyer County. We serve a student base of 48,000 pupils. Cover: The students of Dutchess BOCES programs Leadership Efficiency Innovation Excellence Collaboration 2012/2013 Component School Districts Arlington CSD Dover UFSD Pawling CSD Red Hook CSD Wappingers CSD Lorenzo Licopoli Michael Tierney Michael Mahoney Paul Finch Marco Pochintesta Interim Superintendent Superintendent Interim Superintendent Superintendent Interim Superintendent 144 Todd Hill Road 2368 Rt. 22 515 Route 22 9 Mill Road 167 Myers Corners Road, Suite 200 LaGrangeville, NY 12540 Dover Plains, NY 12522 Pawling, NY 12564 Red Hook, NY 12571 Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 Tel: 845.486.4460 • Fax: 845.486.4457 Tel: 845.832.4500 • Fax: 845.832.4511 Tel: 845.855.4600 • Fax: 845.855.4659 Tel: 845.758.2241 • Fax: 845.758.3366 Tel: 845.298.5000 • Fax: 845.298.5041 Beacon CSD Hyde Park CSD Pine Plains CSD Rhinebeck CSD Webutuck CSD Harvey Hilburgh Greer F. Fischer Linda L. Kaumeyer Joseph Phelan James Gratto Jr. Interim Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent 10 Education Drive PO Box 2033 2829 Church Street PO Box 351 194 Haight Road, PO Box 405 Beacon, NY 12508 Hyde Park, NY 12538 Pine Plains, NY 12567 Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Amenia, NY 12501 Tel: 845.838.6900 • Fax: 845.838.6905 Tel: 845.229.4005 • Fax: 845.229.4016 Tel: 518.398.7181 • Fax: 518.398.6592 Tel: 845.871.5520 • Fax: 845.876.4276 Tel: 845.373-4100 • Fax: 845.373-4102 Millbrook CSD Poughkeepsie CSD Spackenkill UFSD R. Lloyd Jaeger Laval S. Wilson Lois Powell Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent PO Box AA 11 College Ave. 15 Croft Road Millbrook, NY 12545 Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 Tel: 845.677.4200 • Fax: 845.677.4206 Tel: 845.451.4900 • Fax: 845.451.4954 Tel: 845.463.7800 • Fax: 845.463.7804 www.dcboces.org Dutchess BOCES General Information What is BOCES? Who decides which BOCES services What is BOCES aid, who gets it, and why? BOCES stands for Board of Cooperative Educational Services. to purchase? New York State gives a financial incentive to encourage BOCES are public organizations that were created by the New Local boards of education review their district’s needs each year participation in shared services by offering BOCES state aid York State Legislature in 1948 to provide shared educational and make decisions about BOCES services. Because districts’ for BOCES services. This is how BOCES state aid works: Each programs and services to school districts. needs change every year, decisions about BOCES services may also district’s board of education selects BOCES services for the change every year. The decision about whether to participate in current year. In the following school year, a portion of the cost How do the BOCES programs work? each BOCES service is based on the unique needs of each district. of BOCES services is returned to the district by the State of New York. The amount returned to each district depends on BOCES services are created when two or more school districts If a district doesn’t need a BOCES service, it doesn’t request it and does not pay for it. which services the district buys and is based on a formula that determine they have similar needs that can be met by a shared takes into account the district’s financial resources. Money program. BOCES help school districts save money by providing returned to the district is used as revenue. opportunities to pool resources and share costs. Why do school districts participate in BOCES services? Sharing is an economical way for districts to provide programs What BOCES services do not generate BOCES and services that they might not be able to afford otherwise. It Because BOCES services are shared by two or more school aid for local districts? is usually more efficient and less costly to operate one central districts, they generally cost much less than if districts provided service than it is to have separate programs in each school the services on their own. Districts pool their resources and share Special education services from BOCES do not earn BOCES district. However, BOCES services are often customized, offering the savings. aid for local districts, but local districts do receive Excess Cost districts the flexibility to meet their individual needs. Aid to offset some of the costs of special education. Also, some How are BOCES services paid for? expenses within services may not be aided. Other services How is BOCES governed? that do not qualify for BOCES aid are student transportation, BOCES have no taxing authority. An administrative charge is Each BOCES is governed by a board of education that is made services funded from other sources, consumables and adult assessed in proportion to each component district’s size, but most education. The amount of aid varies from district to district. up of representatives from component school districts. They are BOCES revenue is from the fees charged to component districts elected by component boards of education but serve at-large for for the BOCES services they have chosen to use. BOCES expenses the county. BOCES board members are responsible for policy Do BOCES students graduate are incorporated into each district’s annual budget. State aid helps from high school? decisions. to offset some of the cost, and other services are directly funded by the state or federal government. BOCES does not confer high school diplomas. Most career I know BOCES provides special and alternative and technical students and some special education students education programs and career/technical graduate from their local districts with Regents diplomas. programs, but does BOCES offer other services? BOCES provides many different types of programs, although Special Education and Career and Technical Education are usually the largest programs. Other services available through Dutchess BOCES Educational Resources BOCES fall into the categories of Technology, Professional Development, Adult Education, Communications and Business Division supports school districts not only in Services. The numbers and types of services offered change teacher and leader effectiveness, but provides continuously as component districts’ needs and requests evolve. programs for gifted students, supports Arts in Education, promotes School Library Systems, and host AESOP, an integrated substitute calling system. www.dcboces.org At Arlington High School, students taking Mr. Ouimet’s Teaching Science class prepare lessons on various science topics and OUTSTANDING! then invite elementary school classes to the high school for a fun, interactive science class. In June 2012, second graders from Overlook Primary visited Arlington High school and launched rockets. The week before, a fifth grade class learned about the circulatory system and dissected chicken hearts. Central The Adult Learning Institute offers Arlington Schools customized training programs in collaboration with business and 2012 www.arlingtonschools.org industry throughout the state. September S M T W T F S 1 August 2012 October 2012 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 26 27 28 29 30 31 28 29 30 31 www.dcboces.org 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Labor Day Superintendent’s School Opens EDC Business Services CSO Meeting 9:00 a.m. Offices Closed Conference Day Committee Meeting 7:45 a.m. SCDN Meeting – SED Albany 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 One Stop Consortium QA Meeting 10:00 a.m. ½ (PM) Superintendent’s Cabinet/CAC Meeting LHCOSS Meeting/Tarrytown Meeting 8:30 a.m. Conference Day 1:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. Site Based Committee ER Staff Meeting 9:00 a.m. Meeting 2:15 p.m. PEACCE Meeting 2:30 p.m. SBO Meeting 12:30 p.m. ER Coordinators Team SPC Faculty Meeting 2:45 p.m. Board Meeting 7:00 p.m. Meeting 1:00 p.m.